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by briandon 13y ago
As someone who lives with their spouse in a highrise dozens of stories tall built on top of a MTR (mass transit rail) station in a city (Hong Kong) that has what is widely considered a wonderful mass transit system and who regularly walks e
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by briandon 13y ago
It’s as of yet unclear how many other manufacturers leave their firmware updating sequences unsecured. Appotech is a relatively minor player in the SD controller world; there’s a handful of companies that you’ve probably never
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by briandon 13y ago
I upvoted your comment because I agree completely with the core of what you're saying. On the other hand, overseas customers, like myself, pay a much higher shipping rate for used books purchased from third-party sellers. If I buy a li
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by briandon 13y ago
Totally correct. Now, if you told HN the net floor area of your $USD 2.5k-a-month village house and the dimensions of your 3 bedrooms, you'd probably shock many posters here.
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by briandon 13y ago
Your father is wise.
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by briandon 13y ago
When you were living in a cozy apartment, did it happen to be in a city where free, public conveniences (like greenery, shaded benches, water fountains, etc.) were rare to nonexistent, situated in a region where the climate was extremely ho
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by briandon 13y ago
Are (many of) the apartments privately owned in this scenario? If so, then everyone who has already bought an apartment and everyone who stands to inherit such an apartment will "lose" money or the opportunity to convert their rea
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by briandon 13y ago
The countryside consists of the hilliest bits, which the government and developers pretend that they can't build on (Don't look here or there at the hilltops with towering apartment blocks perched on them, it'll spoil your su
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by briandon 13y ago
Spacehunt and gotrecruit are on the money. Even if you spend 3-4x more than the average household's entire monthly income so that you live in a flat that's almost got half as much usable space as a typical suburban home in, for ex
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by briandon 13y ago
And Italy was one of the Allies during WW1 before allying itself with Germany in WW2. During the fight against Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire, other nations provided assistance to Italy. Individuals jumped into the fray to
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by briandon 13y ago
South Korea was not the only country situated near the edge of the former USSR. It was, however, the only country (according to the WP article on shoot-downs) to have any commercial passenger jets shot down by the Soviets for entering Sovie
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by briandon 13y ago
The linked article is indeed long but I'm not sure how much merit there is in the poster's arguments. He contends that 90% of the conversation between the pilots was conducted in English and then, a bit later, quotes a multi-line
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by briandon 13y ago
Cultural differences do exist, even though discussing differences that have negative consequences or are viewed negatively tend to make many of us uncomfortable. "The Pedometer Test: Americans Take Fewer Steps" http://
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by briandon 14y ago
Fair point w/re to most of the UK's omnipresent CCTV cameras being privately owned: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1362493/One-CCTV-cam... The research involved police community support officers counting every camera in Ch
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by briandon 14y ago
There are non-malicious reasons for designing in backdoors (debugging) but the manufacturer is based in the PRC, is subject to PRC laws and pressure, and the PRC government undoubtedly knows that the company supplies hardware to the US mili
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by briandon 14y ago
Thanks for the eye-witness info. The need for the actor/actress to remain frozen in position so as not to extend parts of their body outside the perimeter of the screen explains the wildly exaggerated facial expressions (including Stepford-
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by briandon 14y ago
Please, do step into my handy dandy time machine. We'll set it for thirty years in the future and then step out for a moment and count the number of hip, low-rise brownstones that we can see and then try to pick out the Brooklyner from am
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by briandon 14y ago
Given the other poster's unnecessarily hostile and repeated personal attacks and use of profanity (e.g. "You're a fucking fanatic." , "Grow up and learn that [...]." , etc. from just that last post)., I honestly suspect that he is fighti
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by briandon 14y ago
This is a case of the pot calling the kettle black. Judging by your posting history and your attacks in this thread you are, at the very best, an ill-mannered fanatical libertarian type and possibly suffering from emotional/psychological p
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by briandon 14y ago
No analogy is perfect but, yes, that analogy is good enough. If every car trip really did mean sitting in a traffic for an hour, then I would love public transport more. Thankfully, that's not the case. My wife and I take taxis a lot and,
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by briandon 14y ago
Cars really do give individuals more liberty. Replace cars with, for example, private refrigerators and public transport with communal refrigerators and think it through. Any time that you smoosh people together and force or nudge them into
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by briandon 14y ago
The walkable townhouses and height-restricted buildings you're talking about (1.) only exist so long as the aesthetic/lifestyle value of a low-risey city balances against the demand for more housing and developers' desire to make money and
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by briandon 14y ago
The overwhelming majority of people in HK live in highrises, virtually all new housing being built here (unless your uncle is a village chief and/or you're a male who can prove that he is of villager stock and has a right to build a village
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by briandon 14y ago
> Having left London, I really do miss Ocado. Unlike the > silly timing restrictions you suggest, they delivered at > any hour between about 0700 and 2300 with one hour > windows. We really do deal with six-hour windows h
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by briandon 14y ago
I live in Hong Kong.
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by briandon 14y ago
I don't disagree with you per se, but I have spent nearly a decade living in a city which has amazingly great public transport, very dense living arrangements (30-story highrises are the norm), and people walk constantly. Are you ready to g
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by briandon 14y ago
It's a state made up of 60+ islands. The largest is often called "Singapore Island": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore#Geography http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Singapore
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by briandon 14y ago
You begin with a reductio ad ridiculum argument and segue into a spiel about employers' and employees' being aligned. I'm not sure whether your post earnestly reflects your position or was intended as a satire of the views of stereotypical
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by briandon 14y ago
Think critically for a moment about how it came to be that you were able to parrot the talking point about the percentage of unemployed youth in France but are seemingly unaware that employers are free to fire new workers during multi-mont
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by briandon 14y ago
No, you are mistaken again . I am quite clear on the overall message of the article. I think you get the point of it as well but you're intelligent enough to not bother trying to defend the indefensible, so you complain about me and ad-h

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